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I would say to you what I say to all detractors who offer similar critiques. And that is this: the last ten years have ensured that the old partisan labels neither interest nor threaten me anymore. You essentially accuse me of no longer being a conservative? Fine. Who gives a crap? The last decade has rendered the term meaningless. Mostly because people like you — who swear they’re not Trumpsters, while going on to vigorously defend Trump — can no longer even define what being a conservative is. “Conservatism” has merely become a byword for being whatever Trump says it is. Which is forever subject to change according to his whims. Though for integrity’s sake, I’d still submit that I’m as rock-solid against all the things I used to be against when I was a correspondent at The Weekly Standard. The things that got my goat then, still irritate me now: lies, thought control, anti-Constitutionalism, being anti rule-of-law, personality cults.